Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happen!

ISBN-13: 9780789029188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 204 str.

Sally Dibb; Lydon Simkin

Opis

Market segmentation is a main aspect of an effective business strategy, but implementation is often difficult and ultimately unsuccessful. Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happen offers a solid review of the concepts of market segmentation and target market selection, as well as clearly explaining how to create market segments, how to select which customers to target, what problems will be encountered, and how to best overcome these challenges to success. Marketing experts Sally Dibb and Lyndon Simkin use their consultancy-inspired guidance in this easy-to-read text that provides best practice processes, detailed illustrations, and helpful real-world case examples.

Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happen explores the principles and foundations of segmentation, types of problems reported by practitioners, and offers strategies for solving them. The importance of understanding the customer is discussed at length, along with contrasting approaches to conducting quantitative, qualitative, Greenfield, or evolution segmentation. The authors discuss in detail how to identify, diagnose, and treat segmentation blockers and provide 30 rules for segmentation success. This how-to guidebook shows students, beginners, and even the more seasoned professionals how to improve their efforts for success. The book includes numerous figures and tables to clearly illustrate concepts and data. Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happen is an invaluable resource for business practitioners, consultants, educators, and MBA students working on marketing strategy, marketing management, and marketing operations.

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1. An Overview of Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning. Chapter 2. Understanding and Overcoming Market Segmentation Barriers. Chapter 3. Understanding Consumers or Business Customers. Chapter 4. Contrasting Approaches to Conducting Market Segmentation. Chapter 5. Determining Segment Targets. Chapter 6. Identifying, Diagnosing, and Treating Segmentation Blockers. Chapter 7. Essential Lessons and the Thirty Rules for Segmentation Success. References. Index.